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The 'nays' getting lots of traction on twitter right now

https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684642852616192000



Some schmo with an instant coffee company. There's no need to surface random people's opinions.


But it's tech instant coffee


1000 to 1? Dollars to bitcoins? Shares in their room temperature superconductor monopoly?


I mean, he has a PhD in physics, at least. He's not just some rando off the street.


I was a high energy theorist and I even went to the same school as this guy (Princeton). I’ll admit I’m a complete rando when it comes to superconducting materials. PhD in an unrelated subfield means very little. I guess it helps with grokking academic drama.


Einstein was some schmo working at a patent office...


For context, he is the same guy that went viral yesterday[0] excited with optimism, now saying there are other more possible explanations for the results besides superconductivity

[0]: https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684044616528453633


Just to keep us all up to date, he’s now linked a figure from the recently discovered third paper and returned to breathless excitement.




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